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REGENERATION: THE PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC SPACE?

Sunday 21st January. Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace (off George IV Bridge). 7.00-10.00. Free/Donation. All welcome.

This month, THE FORUM - a medium for the open discussion of subjects of public interest- will be looking at the impacts of regeneration (we call it gentrification) in London and Edinburgh. The London Particular, "an open-ended urban research group which has been documenting, theorising and acting against regeneration and gentrification in East London since 2001", will be visiting to show and discuss two of their short films;

Leith based film-maker Neil Gray (a member of The Forum group) will be showing his new film about the 'regeneration' of the Edinburgh Waterfront area: 'The Masterplan' (30 mins).

The film exposes the rhetoric that surrounds consultation and 'community engagement' exercises, arguing that the developments are intensely profit-led, and have little or no connection to the needs of excluded and deprived areas in North Edinburgh.

SPACE MATTERS.